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NATIONAL EXAMINATION 1 - MOCK TEST 
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the other three in pronunciation in each of the following questions.
1. 	A. envelopes	 B. communicates C. headaches 	D. judges
2. 	A. geyser	 B. honeymoon	 C. journey 	D. money
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the word that differs from the other three in the position of the primary stress in each of the following questions.
3. 	A. workforce	 B. career	 C. downside 	D. battle
4. 	A. assessment B. measurable C. description 	D. effective
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.
5. People believe that habitual learners are more likely to put themselves _______ new and challenging social situations throughout life.
A. at	B. by	C. of 	D. into
6. We can only give you ______ approximate number of refugees crossing the border at the moment.
A. a	B. the	C. O 	D. an
7. The existence of such a center is expected to help ASEAN members facilitate assistance to any country ____ by a disaster.
A. hit	B. to hit	C. hits 	D. hitting
8. After __________ the train, we managed to find our seats and then relax on the long trip ahead.
A. boarding	B. having board	C. we have boarded 	D. had boarded
9. Unless you ____________ your heart, you might spend the rest of your life wishing you had.
A. followed	B. follow	C. had followed 	D. following
10. Winning the cup in 1998 was just a ___________ in the pan – they haven’t won the match since then.
A. blaze	B. flame	C. light 	D. flash
11. It is estimated by some linguists that this total is actually in the region of around 1.8 billion, due to the English language being taught in many Asian schools, _________ being something of a lingual Francesca of the world.
A. because of	B. so as to	C. as well as 	D. so long as
12. He'll give you a call as soon as he ____________________.
A. will arrive	B. arrives	C. is arriving 	D. is going to arrive
13. There is a lot of traffic so we are trying to find an ______ route.
A. alternate	B. alternative	C. alternation 	D. alternated
14. We take it rather as a time for reflection and _________ realism about how far the nation has progressed on the path towards freedom and democracy, and how much farther we still have to go.
A. clear-sighted	B. short - sighted	C. long-sighted 	D. far-sighted
15. You won’t pile on the _______ if you eat one of our tasty snacks whenever you’re feeling hungry.
A. pounds	B. weights	C. kilograms 	D. scales
16. In recent years, China has ____________ the lead in global warming pollution, producing about 28 percent of all CO2 emissions.
A. put	B. taken	C. given 	D. done
17. The United States, China and India are now competing for political influence in ASEAN, and France, a leading European country, does not want to be ___________.
A. left out	B. put off	C. thought of 	D. led on
18. Don’t ___in my presentation with your comments like that. It is so annoying and rude.
A. take	B. chip	C. but 	D. cut
Mark the letter A, B, C or D to indicate the word(s) CLOSEST in meaning to the underlined
19. Understanding the need for change is essential for the ability to successfully cope with these challenges.
A. get rid of	B. deal with	C. go down 	D. keep up with
20. He stressed that idea of the event is to grab the public's attention with their favorite acts, rather than to give them a diverse arts festival.
A. distract	B. evaluate	C. change 	D. attract
Indicate the word(s) OPPOSITE in meaning to the underlined word(s)
21. The best hope of avoiding a down-market tabloid TV future lies in the pressure currently being put on the networks to clean up their act.
A. expensive	B. cheap	C. inferior 	D. economical
22. Danny put the cat among the pigeons by suggesting that the company might have to make some redundancies.
A. made other people disappointed	B. made other people nervous
C. made a lot of people satisfied 	D. made a lot of people worried
Indicate the correct word or phrase that best fits each of the numbered blanks.
BRITPOP
In the early to mid-1990s Britpop artists, influenced by British guitar sounds of the 1960s and 70s, wrote about topics that were considered purely British and relevant to their generation. The music style with its (1) ____ songs was considered as a reaction against the grunge music that was arriving from the States and, in fact, it did not have a huge commercial success in the USA.
Britpop bands included Suede, Pulp, Blur and Oasis but it was the (2) ____ two that really dominated the market. In 1994 Blur released their album Parklife (3) ____ had a strong retro feel from the 70s and Oasis released Definitely Maybe, again with a retro feel reminiscent of John Lennon.
The two bands were often seen (4) ____ rivals and this was exaggerated by the media who emphasized their differences in origins and class: Oasis from the north of England, Blur from the south. This culminated in both bands releasing singles on the same day in 1985, with Blur's single Country House reaching number one in the charts and Oasis's Roll With It number two. Oasis, however, went on to have greater commercial success, particularly with the album (What's the story) Morning Glory? (1985) which sold 412 million (5) ____ in the UK.
23. (1)	A. caught	B. catchy	C. catcher 	D. catch-up
24. (2)	A. latest	B. later	C. latter 	D. late
25. (3)	A. what	B. where	C. when 	D. which
26. (4)	A. as	B. like	C. but 	D. if
27. (5)	A. versions	B. copies	C. editions 	D. episodes
Indicate the underlined part that needs correction in each of the following questions
28. The Department of Foreign Languages are not located in the new building opposite the old one.
A. The	B. are	C. the new 	D. opposite
29. Urban legends are funny, surprising or scary stories that told again and again, often by people saying that they happen to ‘a friend of a friend’.
A. legends	B. told again and again	C. saying 	D. happen
30. His ambition and doggy determination ensured that he rose to the top of his profession.
A. doggy	B. ensured	C. rose to 	D. profession
Indicate the correct answer to each of the questions.
In today's fast-paced industry, learning will most likely involve seeking new skills in ways that challenge the norm. But thankfully, there is promise for such lifelong learning online - a promise that will save you time and money while helping you earn more of both.
Provided you have access to a decent computer and the Internet, the barrier to getting started is probably lower than it ever has been. And with those things in place, it is a matter of finding the content you wish to learn. So, to help others who may be looking to maximize their own learning efforts, I have listed some quick tips below.
First, set achievable goals. When you start learning, it is a good idea to set goals about what you want to learn or what you might do with your newly acquired knowledge. It might be landing that new job, building a tangible product, or impressing your current management. The goals may vary in size and complexity, but do revisit these goals throughout your learning process. Within a couple weeks ask yourself, "Am I getting closer to my goal?" or "Am I learning the skills necessary to reach my goals?" If you are not, then you may need to look elsewhere.
Second, learn with others. By yourself, learning anything has a high propensity to become frustrating. Try teaming up with friends or colleagues. They can often be your best resource for maintaining motivation while you learn.
Third, make it a habit. Online habits often include scrolling through social media or watching videos on YouTube. If you have the downtime for such activities, then you could spend that downtime learning something. And why not learn something? If you do, then you will have plenty more to talk about on social media anyways. So, make learning your new online habit by making a commitment to learn something new each day.
31. What does the word "both" in Paragraph 1 refer to?
A. Time and money	B. Lifelong and online learning
C. New skills and ways 	D. Industry and technology
32. According to the passage, what are the basic condition for learning online?
A. A smart phone and a 4-G sim card	B. A computer and the Internet
C. A goal and learning efforts 	D. A content and the wish to learn
33. According to the passage, what is the first step of learning online?
A. Buying a computer and having it checked every two weeks.
B. Landing a new job and building a tangible product.
C. Setting practical goals and checking them regularly.
D. Varying your goals in size as well as complexity.
34. What is the word "commitment" in the last paragraph closest in meaning to?
A. a rule	B. a chance	C. a need 	D. a situation
35. What is the passage mainly about?
A. Tips for lifelong learning	B. Advantages of the Internet
C. Changes of technology 	D. Effects of social media
Indicate the correct answer to each of the questions
If you go back far enough, everything lived in the sea. At various points in evolutionary history, enterprising individuals within many different animal groups moved out onto the land, sometimes even to the most parched deserts, taking their own private seawater with them in blood and cellular fluids. In addition to the reptiles, birds, mammals and insects which we see all around us, other groups that have succeeded out of water include scorpions, snails, crustaceans such as woodlice and land crabs, millipedes and centipedes, spiders and various worms. And we mustn’t forget the plants, without whose prior invasion of the land, none of the other migrations could have happened.
Moving from water to land involved a major redesign of every aspect of life, including breathing and reproduction. Nevertheless, a good number of thoroughgoing land animals later turned around, abandoned their hard-earned terrestrial re-tooling, and returned to the water again. Seals have only gone part way back. They show us what the intermediates might have been like, on the way to extreme cases such as whales and dugongs. Whales (including the small whales we call dolphins) and dugongs, with their close cousins, the manatees, ceased to be land creatures altogether and reverted to the full marine habits of their remote ancestors. They don’t even come ashore to breed. They do, however, still breathe air, having never developed anything equivalent to the gills of their earlier marine incarnation. Turtles went back to the sea a very long time ago and, like all vertebrate returnees to the water, they breathe air. However, they are, in one respect, less fully given back to the water than whales or dugongs, for turtles still lay their eggs on beaches.
There is evidence that all modern turtles are descended from a terrestrial ancestor which lived before most of the dinosaurs. There are two key fossils called Proganochelys quenstedti and Palaeochersis talampayensis dating from early dinosaur times, which appear to be close to the ancestry of all modern turtles and tortoise. You might wonder how we can tell whether fossil animals lived in land or in water, especially if only fragments are found. Sometimes it’s obvious. Ichthyosaurs were reptilian contemporaries of the dinosaurs, with fins and streamlined bodies. The fossils look like dolphins and they surely lived like dolphins, in the water. With turtles it is a little less obvious. One way to tell is by measuring the bones of their forelimbs.
36. Which of the following best serves as the main idea for the passage?
A. The evidences of the time marine animals moved to land.
B. The relationship between terrestrial species and marine creatures.
C. The reasons why species had to change their living place.
D. The evolution of marine species in changing places to live.
37. According to the first paragraph, reptiles, birds, mammals and insects __________.
A. were the ones living on the marine organisms
B. moved to deserts to find feeding grounds
C. left the water at the same time of scorpions, snails and crustaceans.
D. are the species whose ancestors succeeded in moving from water to land.
38. As mentioned in paragraph 2, which of the following species returned to the water least completely?
A. Whales	B. manatees	C. turtles 	D. dugongs
39. The word “ceased” in paragraph 2 mostly means ______________.
A. stopped happening or existing	B. got familiar
C. began to happen or exist 	D. decided to become
40. The word “incarnation” in the second paragraph could be best replaced by __________.
A. ancestor	B. embodiment	C. evolution 	D. natural selection
41. According to the passage, which of the following is NOT true?
A. Seals are able to live on land and in the water.
B. Some terrestrial habits were remained when the species reverted to water life.
C. Apart from breathing and breeding, marine species were expected to change nothing to live on land.
D. Ichthyosaurs might have resembled dolphins.
42. What does the word “they” in the last paragraph refer to?
A. dinosaurs B. fins and streamlined bodies C. ichthyosaurs 	D. dolphins
43. It can be inferred from the last passage that _____________.
A. the body features of the fossil animals help scientists to distinguish the terrestrial and marine species.
B. turtles’ ancestor and dinosaurs became extinct contemporarily.
C. it’s clear to determine the living places of all species through the fragments found.
D. the fossils of turtles and tortoises might have the similar appearances with dolphins.
Indicate the sentence that is closest in meaning to each of the following questions.
44. Tome denied breaking the teacher's laptop.
A. "No, I refuse to break the teacher's laptop."	B. "No, I didn't intend to break the teacher's laptop."
C. "It is not I who broke the teacher's laptop." D. The teacher's laptop was not what I wanted to break."
45. No other student in his class is as successful as Pat.
A. Pat succeeded in beating all other students in his class.
B. Pat is the most successful student in his class.
C. His class is less successful than Pat is
D. The more successful his class is, the more success Pat gets.
46. To let Harold join our new project was silly as he knows little about our company.
A. Harold couldn’t have joined our new project with such poor knowledge about our company.
B. Harold must have known so little about our company that he wasn’t let to join our new project.
C. We shouldn’t have allowed Harold to join our new project as he doesn’t know much about our company.
D. We would have joined the new project with Harold provided that he knew much about our company.
47. Hoa: “______________”	- Jenny: 'It's plausible and it can bring about big changes.’
A. How about launching a project on recycling waste? B. What do you think about the project on recycling?
C. I couldn't have put the project better myself. D. Could you help me with the project on recycling?
48. Lan: "Will you be able to finish the report in three days?"	Minh: “_________________”
A. I don't hope that	B. I will have great difficulty. C. I'm afraid not 	D. Wow! What can I do?
Mark the letter A, B, C, or D to indicate the sentence that best combines each pair of sentences in the following questions.
49. You have just passed your final examination. This makes your parents happy
A. Having just passed your final examination making your parents happy.
B. You have just passed your final examination makes your parents happy.
C. That you have just passed your final examination makes your parents happy.
D. What you have just passed your final examination makes your parents happy.
50. Beethoven's first teacher was his father. He often pulled Beethoven out of bed to practice until morning.
A. As Beethoven's father often pulled him out of bed to practice until morning, he became Beethoven's first teacher.
B. Beethoven's first teacher was his father who used to pull him out of bed to practice until morning.
C. To be Beethoven's first teacher, Beethoven's father used to pull him out of bed to practice until morning.
D. Being his first teacher, Beethoven's father had to pull Beethoven out of bed to practice until morning.